Lowdown unleashes the valuable content locked within Slack and delivers it to your members inboxes as a weekly email newsletter, guiding them back to engage.
@armstrong IKR? Welcome to my world. Would you want control over which channels you receive updates from or are you happy to go with what the community surfaces?
@shylands I think I'd be happy with a general summary of what's going on in the Slack workspaces I’m a part of. May want more fine-grained control down the line, but not at first
👋 Hi Product Hunt!
Last year I started a Slack community which grew to over 800 members, but I noticed that many of the people who joined didn’t engage and eventually disappeared.
I desperately wanted a way to re-engage with these members so I could remind them of the valuable content my community offered. If I could do that they’d know what they missed and could return to get involved.
That’s when we had the idea to highlight the post's members engaged with the most in a weekly newsletter — and Lowdown was born!
Here’s how it works:
- Lowdown watches the Slack channels of your choice and automatically highlights the posts with the most replies and emoji reactions. You can also and post to your newsletter directly from Slack in two clicks.
- Easily get subscribers by either auto-subscribing your entire membership or asking for permission via a message sent to any channel/DM by our Slackbot.
- That’s it, your newsletter will send every week with absolutely no need for manual input.
We’re also sharing transparent bi-weekly progress updates in our quest to achieve $10K MRR by July 2020. https://getlowdown.com/blog/ and developing a version of Lowdown specifically for tech teams using Slack. Register your interest here https://getlowdown.com/teams
We’d love to hear any feedback or ideas on how we can improve Lowdown, so please tell us what you think. Cheers! 💬📰🖖
@budibase Thanks Joe. I'd highly recommend building a community especially as an open-source project. We recently launched a guide on how to setup a Slack community and landing page in one hour. Might be helpful :) https://getlowdown.com/how-to-cr...
I'm with @ben_lindsay1: How did this not exist before?! Lowdown is superhelpful, especially when you're in a lot of Slacks and are time poor. Great work, Steven! 🎉 🚀 What it is is what it is!
I love how this summarises the best of our reading channel, and turns it into Sunday reading.
Fascinated by all the potential of turning real-time messages + team/community votes and essentially automatically crowdsourcing newsletters.
Keen to experiment with it as a way to do investor/customer updates.
- Is it possible to make a newsletter from a private channel?
P.s. really like your blog and transparency.
@chrismcclelland Thanks Chris. Yeah you can do this right now. When you join you get to select the channels (including private) you'd like your newsletter content to be generated from. 😊
Really awesome product - I run into the problem of keeping all of the community members engaged, and have tried to drag content into Mailchimp and send manually to a list of emails exported from Slack (but need to add new emails every time that I get new members since it doesn't update itself). Will try it out this week :) Would love if the platform populated previews of content as well.
@dominicl Hey Dominic - thanks 😊When you say "populated previews of content" which content are you referring too. Keen to understand your use case. Thanks again
@shylands for example, when i want to include an article shared in slack, i'd love to have it show a preview (kind of like when slack previews the article with the image + subtext) or when i want to include a pdf attachment, maybe showing the title page as well.
@dominicl Ah got ya. We're on it ;) Specifically for links and images attached to posts at least initially. Generally we plan to make the newsletter much more visual and interesting 😊
Looking forward to giving this a go once I have a bit more traction in my community.
Is it easy to possible to add links/articles to the newsletter by posting them in Slack?
@kylegawley Yeah any post in Slack can be added to your newsletter directly from Slack including links. We're working on an update that will represent any links in a nicer more visual way too.
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